Blue Owl Capital Co. III (OBDE) & Its Peers Critical Analysis

Blue Owl Capital Co. III (NYSE:OBDE) is one of 644 public companies in the “Holding & other investment offices” industry, but how does it contrast to its peers? We will compare Blue Owl Capital Co. III to related businesses based on the strength of its earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, institutional ownership, valuation and risk.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current recommendations and price targets for Blue Owl Capital Co. III and its peers, as reported by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Blue Owl Capital Co. III	0	0	1	0	3.00
Blue Owl Capital Co. III Competitors	125	557	818	14	2.48

Blue Owl Capital Co. III presently has a consensus target price of $16.00, indicating a potential upside of 0.03%. As a group, “Holding & other investment offices” companies have a potential upside of 98.31%. Given Blue Owl Capital Co. III’s peers higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Blue Owl Capital Co. III has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Blue Owl Capital Co. III and its peers gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Blue Owl Capital Co. III	$422.83 million	$271.96 million	7.05
Blue Owl Capital Co. III Competitors	$1.44 billion	$105.14 million	60.41

Blue Owl Capital Co. III’s peers have higher revenue, but lower earnings than Blue Owl Capital Co. III. Blue Owl Capital Co. III is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

54.5% of shares of all “Holding & other investment offices” companies are held by institutional investors. 25.6% of shares of all “Holding & other investment offices” companies are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Dividends

Blue Owl Capital Co. III pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.8%. Blue Owl Capital Co. III pays out 61.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Holding & other investment offices” companies pay a dividend yield of 6.7% and pay out 63.2% of their earnings in the form of a dividend. Blue Owl Capital Co. III is clearly a better dividend stock than its peers, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Profitability

This table compares Blue Owl Capital Co. III and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Blue Owl Capital Co. III	63.33%	13.62%	6.78%
Blue Owl Capital Co. III Competitors	23.05%	-52.86%	3.61%

Summary

Blue Owl Capital Co. III beats its peers on 8 of the 14 factors compared.

About Blue Owl Capital Co. III

Blue Owl Capital Corporation is a specialty finance company focused on lending to U.S. middle-market companies. Blue Owl Capital Corporation is based in NEW YORK.